Monday's Notebook

January 21, 1986

The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced that the Baylor University men's program had been placed on probation for recruiting violations. The action prohibits the team from participating in NCAA championship competition or in any other post-season play during the 1985-86 academic year. In addition, only two new recruits will be permitted to receive initial athletically related financial aid for the 1986-87 academic year. The program will be limited to a total of 13 scholarships during the 1986-87 and 1987-88 academic years, a reduction of two. The committee said it had suspended one year of a two-year, post-season penalty and a one-year television sanction because of cooperation from Baylor.

Junior forward Nikita Wilson, Louisiana State's second-leading scorer, has been sidelined pending an effort to retain academic eligibility, university athletic officials said. LSU's sports information department issued a statement saying Wilson has appealed a grade he received in a course taken during the fall semester, and that the outcome of the appeal will not be known before next Monday. Coach Dale Brown said Wilson, the team captain, will sit out the Florida game Wednesday and the Auburn game Saturday. Wilson took two correspondence courses over the holiday recess in attempt to restore his C average necessary to maintain eligibility for the team.

North Carolina, which opened its new arena with a three-point victory over Duke and followed that with a two-point road victory over Marquette last weekend, was the unanimous choice as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press poll. The Tar Heels (19-0) have been on top of the poll in each of the regular-season polls, but this was their first week as a unanimous choice.

The big boys in the Big Eight meet tonight at Allen Fieldhouse at Lawrence, Kan., with the conference lead at stake as fifth-ranked Oklahoma (17-0, 2-0) plays seventh-ranked Kansas (16-2, 2-0). Kansas Coach Larry Brown, worrying about Oklahoma's offense producing 92 points a game: ''We'll find out how good our defense is. We know those guys can score.'' High-scoring Darryl Kennedy of Oklahoma: ''I'm going to go out and play my game. They might be tall, and they might think they can run, but I don't think they have better athletes than we do.''